Teacher/Parent Pack

The Everything You Need to Learn to Read pack!

“achieved more in 20 minutes than 3 terms at school!”

Exclusive to Reading Matters, this handy pack will suit parents wanting to help their children learn to read, and tutors who need a single set for each student.

Your child will be learning the habits of skilled readers right from the start.  

The pack comes with 62 Pocket Rocket stories, a reading guide with a summary of each story - its theme, focus grapheme, tricky words and punctuation. There is also a series of questions for each book to guide you when chatting with your child about the story.

Also included is a colourful sounds reference card which gives the grapheme (written form of the sounds) for all 44 sounds, from simple “one letter one sound” to “two or three letters one sound”. They appear in the same order as the stories and each grapheme is represented by a character from its Pocket Rocket stories.

Great for phonics practice and very useful for spelling words.

The 62 imaginative stories are packed with humorous characters and quirky plots to engage the reader. They have been written specifically around the progressive learning of the sounds. Children can successfully use their emerging phonic skills to read and enjoy these fun stories.

Pack includes:

62 stories covering the 44 phonemes: 

Phase 2:

s a t p i n m d g o c k ck e u r h b f l ll ss ff

Phase 3:

j v w x y z qu ch sh th ng ai ee igh oa oo ar or ur ow oi ear air ure er

Phase 4:

 Consolidates children’s knowledge of previously learnt letters and sounds and takes them further with words containing adjacent consonants.

Children will be able to apply their previous letter/sound knowledge to sound out longer words such as gift, stop, trap, sniff, swoop, train, fright, crunch, and splash.    

• Orange booklets (A7) -18 stories
• Purple booklets (A7) - 26 stories
• Green booklets (A7) – 18 stories
• Sounds Reference card
• Guide to the stories
• Zip-lock case

The Pocket Rocket booklets are in a fun, concertina format and printed on A7 sized (10.5cm x 7.5cm) 105gsm glossy art-paper - strong enough to resist constant handling from little hands.